The Empress
The Empress represents creation, abundance, and the fertile power of Mother Nature, signaling that ideas and intentions conceived on the astral plane are ready to manifest in the physical world. She embodies nurturing, motherhood, sensuality, and confidence in one's body and creative potential. When she appears she invites growth, creativity, and the realization of desires through care, beauty, and embodied expression. Reversed, her energy can indicate blocked fertility, creative stagnation, relational tensions (especially around motherhood), or feelings of neglect and loss.
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3. The Empress
Description
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Representing the process of creation, the Empress is a symbol of Mother Nature herself. The seeds that were sown on the astral plane are now bursting into bloom in the Empress's earthly garden. She is the spell that has worked, the results that one's magick has yielded. She is the pregnant mother that is soon to give birth, the loving mother that nurtures and comforts. She symbolizes not only fertility of body, but also fertility of mind and spirit. This is a time of growth and creativity, a time for desires that have thus far been only dreams to be made manifest in the physical world.
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The Empress is self-assured, self-loving, comfortable in her body, and confident in enjoying her sexuality. One must learn to recognize and accept their own beauty and awesome potential; and the Empress encourages you to do just that.
Divinatory Meanings
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Femininity; primal and/or passionate sexuality; the fertile and creative aspect of the natural world; passion and romance; sexually open behavior; a particularly attractive or desirable person; an experienced lover; a flirt; comfort, care, and nurturing; a mother; motherhood; pregnancy; fertility of spirit; creativity; good health; growth; abundance; using sexuality to gain power; ideas and intentions born on the astral plane are made manifest in the physical reality.
Reversed
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Infertility; a miscarriage; indiscriminate sexual behavior; an individual who poses a threat to one's relationship; jealousy; a loss of beauty or youth; menopause; the growth of a project is stunted; a fight with one's mother; anxieties about motherhood; a need to improve one's parenting skills; a need to be more understanding, supportive, and nurturing; a lull or pause in one's creative output; a creative block; feeling unsupported or neglected; passion and stamina are spent.
Magickal Uses
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Good for fertility charms, romance magick, boosting femininity, inspiring attraction, improving mothering abilities, magnifying passion, increasing creativity, improving relations between mother and children, and for spells intended to bring increase, growth, or abundance. It can also be used in rituals to represent Nature or the mother goddess. Reversed, it can be used to symbolize miscarriage or infertility.
Visual Description
A green-skinned woman sits on a rock throne wearing a crown of wheat and stars and a yellow, floral dress. She holds a small scepter in one hand and rests the other on a rounded shield marked with geometric designs. A large brown ox reclines in the foreground with blue stars painted on its back. Behind her a stone arch opens onto a sunlit meadow and distant pillars under a pale sky.
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